082: Climate Change Along the Chesapeake and the Come Together Handbook with Dana Simson
A Sustainable Mind - environment & sustainability podcast
Marjorie Alexander
4.6 • 588 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Author/illustrator/Designer Dana Simson is a life-long environmentalist and climate change activist. She and her husband live on the frontline of climate change in a 200-year-old house on an island in the Chesapeake Bay. She keeps a tide clock on the dash of her car and gives the blue crabs and fish the right of way on her commute home. She has been a sought-after speaker and visiting professor on imagination development for the last 20 years. Currently, she is using her skillset to engage and empower people to look at climate change as an opportunity for positive change. Dana has written and illustrated 14 books and worked with many companies internationally to design home decor and many products. She is also the illustrator for the upcoming Green Writers Press children's picture book; Janey Monarch Seed.
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In this episode Marjorie and Dana discuss:
- How illustrated books can have a greater impact on readers openness to the material versus all-text books
- The changes that she's seen in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem over the last several decades as a result of climate change
- Does living along the Chesapeake increase residents receptiveness to the concept of climate change and what changes has she seen in the community's mindset over the years
- Her new book the Come Together Handbook
Resources mentioned in today's episode:
- Beasts of a Southern Wild film trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqZzSMIZa0
- Paul Hawken https://paulhawken.com/
- Project Drawdown https://drawdown.org/
- Climate Action Network https://climatenetwork.org/
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation https://www.cbf.org/
- Surfrider https://www.surfrider.org/
- 350.org https://350.org/
- Earth Justice https://earthjustice.org/
- Sierra Club https://www.sierraclub.org/
- Oceana https://oceana.org/
- Repair.org https://www.repair.org/
- Slow Food https://www.slowfood.com/
- Eat Wild http://www.eatwild.com/
- Planned Parenthood https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
- Southern Poverty Law Center https://www.splcenter.org/
- Habitat for Humanity https://www.habitat.org/
- Website: danasimson.com
- Personal FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/dana.simsonorth
- Artist FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/danasimson
- Dana's Art Gallery, Chesapeake East Company: https://www.facebook.com/Danasimsonart
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanaSimsonArt
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danasimsonart/
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/danasimson/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asustainablemind/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/SustainableMind
- Website: http://www.asustainablemind.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is A Sustainable Mind, episode 82. Today we'll be speaking with Dana Simpson, an artist, |
| 0:07.6 | author, longtime environmentalist, and climate change activist about her new book. I just received a copy |
| 0:14.0 | in the mail and it is beautiful. But before we get into that, I wanted to thank the sponsor of |
| 0:19.5 | today's show, Brightmark. |
| 0:21.4 | Brightmark is a leader in plastics renewal technology, and they aim to transform post-consumer plastics |
| 0:27.0 | that are destined for the landfill into multiple kinds of usable resources for the future. |
| 0:32.6 | We'll be talking a little bit more about their plastics renewal solutions a little bit later in this episode. |
| 0:38.4 | Now, let's get into it. |
| 0:42.2 | Welcome to A Sustainable Mind, where we delve into the minds behind today's most impactful |
| 0:47.8 | environmental campaigns, organizations, and startups, inspiring the environmental change makers of tomorrow. I'm your host, |
| 0:56.8 | Marjorie Alexander. Author, illustrator, and designer, Dana Simpson is a lifelong |
| 1:08.1 | environmentalist and climate change activist. She and her husband live on the front line of climate change in a 200-year-old house on an island in the Chesapeake Bay. She keeps a tide clock on the dash of her car and gives the blue crabs and fish the right-of-way on her commute home. She has been a sought after speaker and visiting professor on imagination |
| 1:29.4 | development for the last 10 years. Currently, she is using her skill set to engage and empower people |
| 1:35.0 | to look at climate change as an opportunity for positive change. Dana has written and illustrated |
| 1:40.8 | 14 books and worked with many companies internationally to design home decor and |
| 1:46.1 | many other products. She is also the illustrator for the upcoming Green Writers Press |
| 1:51.1 | Children's Picture Book, Janie Monarch Seed. Welcome to the show, Dana. Well, thanks a lot. |
| 1:57.8 | I'm pleased to be here. Excellent, excellent. So let's get started with our very first question, the same question that we ask everyone. How did nature, the environment, and sustainability play a role in your childhood growing up? |
| 2:11.1 | Well, I think I was really lucky to live kind of back in the growing up in the 70s when I don't know our parents opened the door and they |
| 2:19.2 | said see ya around dinner and and I went down and I played with my friends down by the |
| 2:25.4 | Shemong River and a flood had come through there years ago and so there were these kind of overgrown |
| 2:31.4 | basements and things like that and animals everywhere. |
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